I advise the middle school newspaper, also known as the Jammed Locker. This year participation has been so high that I’ve requested an iCart of laptops to be delivered to the computer lab to supplement the 25 iMacs I have in the computer lab.
On Thursday afternoons the student journalists stream into the lab, drop their [...]
Posted on October 29th, 2009 by Ms. Ruthie Hansen
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Both my sixth grade classes and my fifth grade classes are well into the Keyboarding for Kids program right now. There are a few main points about the goals of the program that I want to clarify.
First of all, the ultimate goal of this exercise is that each student will be able to type quickly [...]
Posted on September 25th, 2009 by Ms. Ruthie Hansen
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Dear Students,
Many of you have asked me about how to create a CNet account. This is the name and password that you need to connect to the uchicago wireless network at school or anywhere on the University campus. If you bring your own laptop to school, you need a CNet account to get [...]
Posted on October 24th, 2008 by Ms. Ruthie Hansen
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Dear 5th Grade Students– Does it feel like we’ve been working on your “All About Me” movies for months? Well, guess what? We have! Since each class only meets once a week for 45 minutes, progress on the movies has been slow but steady. You do know the story about the tortise and [...]
Posted on January 22nd, 2008 by Ms. Ruthie Hansen
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Another batch of fantastic portraits from my 5th grade students! These ones are in Ms. Gallagher’s homeroom class.
A few people have asked me how these paintings are made. Each student snapped a photo of themselves using the computer’s built-in camera and an application called Photo Booth. Art Rage is a computer painting program, [...]
Posted on November 6th, 2007 by Ms. Ruthie Hansen
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Art Rage portraits that Ms. Frank’s 5th graders made in computer class are now online! Nice work overall.
Posted on November 5th, 2007 by Ms. Ruthie Hansen
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A new gallery of art rage portraits is online now! These ones are from Mr. Kass’ homeroom students. A few paintings were turned in without names, so if you don’t see yours in the gallery come talk to me and we’ll see if we can find it amongst the unclaimed pictures. This class [...]
Posted on November 1st, 2007 by Ms. Ruthie Hansen
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As promised, I’m putting up galleries of the beautiful self-portraits 5th graders painted using ArtRage. I’ll be uploading the rest of the images over the course of this week. The first gallery, Ms. Dorman’s students, is up now.
Check it out!
Posted on October 30th, 2007 by Ms. Ruthie Hansen
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Dear 5th Grade Students–
I wanted to let you know that ArtRage, the painting software we are using in class to create self-portraits is available for free download for Mac or PC: Download ArtRage.
Here’s my beautiful self portrait:
I’ll publish some of yours here next week when they are finished.
Sincerely, Ms. Hansen
Posted on October 12th, 2007 by Ms. Ruthie Hansen
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Dear 5th grade students,
Did you go home after class this week and show your parents what you can do with Microsoft Word? Most grown ups don’t know how to do most of the tricks with Word we learned about in class these past two weeks!
For example, the trick you used to place photos onto [...]
Posted on October 4th, 2007 by Ms. Ruthie Hansen
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